“You know, my father used to look at people and he treated everyone with such respect, and he always believed that he would rather trust you face on and be disappointed perhaps down the road, be disappointed some of the time rather than never to trust someone, never to believe in someone, and alas, be disappointed all the time.”

American sportscaster

Jim Nantz is an American sportscaster who has been a familiar CBS voice since 1985. Born James William Nantz III, he has covered major professional and college sports across football, basketball, golf, and the PGA Tour. He has anchored CBS’s Masters Tournament coverage since 1989 and became the network’s lead NFL play-by-play announcer in 2004. From 1990 to 2023, he was also the lead broadcaster for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, making his career closely associated with some of CBS’s best-known sports broadcasts.